CHAPTER 8

"You're pathetic." I heard him spoke and his words seemed like daggers that pierced through me. It hurt me for reasons that I do not know. I felt the bitter taste of anger in my system and I pushed him away with everything I had.

He released me from his grasp and I dusted myself as my clothes were now crumpled which irritated me more. I started to walk away without sparing him a glance as I fear it would make me even more angry and who knows what's going to come out of this mouth by then.

"You're acting like a princess by walking away." I heard him speak in a mocking tone which annoyed me even more. Turning slowly to face him, my breath got caught in my throat as I saw him smirking to which I found odd. I breathe slowly and ignored the strange thing that was going on.

"And you're acting like a jerk has anyone told you that?" I said and turned my back around him.

"What did you say?!" My heartbeat started to soar as I heard him exclaimed. He deserved to be called a jerk because he is, and I don't care what happens but I'm not taking it back. I continued walking trying my best to stay unfazed with the knowledge that he was now following me.

"You dare call me that when you yourself is worthless!? I can snap your neck right here-" he was cut off by a sound of a breaking bone as he landed on the floor. I was breathing heavily with a metal bat on my hand.

My ears were ringing, and I felt like beating him more, but I restricted myself for unknown reason. What he said pained me and I didn't know why he keeps repeating it when he knows that I know it. That I'm useless. I found a bat that was slantingly positioned in one of the pillars and I didn't know but I picked it up and swung it directly to his head without any thought.

I looked at him as he was still on the ground with blood on his forehead. He looked at me with pure rage, but I could not care less.

"Next time you speak to me, tell me something new. Jerk." I spat bitterly and threw the bat to him. I started to walk away, and I could tell he was no longer following me. Though I heard someone shouted, it sounded like a girl by the way she was shouting like she was going to die. I found Nate and Philip along with some group of students in the hallway that stopped in their tracks as they saw me.

"What happened?!" Philip asked worriedly but I did not pay attention to him and continued walking. Nate kept quiet and followed me silently until someone shouted again.

"Hade is down! Get some help!" I did not bother to look back and continued on my track.

"Alex we'll meet you later, were gonna go check Hade out." I heard Philip said while I also heard Nate cussing him as the other was dragging him back. I didn't mind and went to my room. I felt exhausted and sad.

I walked down the hallway that was very silent aside from the sound of the breeze that the wind made. I stopped midway in my tracks as I saw the open seas through the terrace. I sighed and walked closer to the view.

Suddenly, I felt like crying for no reasons, maybe I'm just too exhausted at the moment that I feel like crying. I looked at the sea and remembered my family and my people. I remembered memories both good and bad that made me even more sad than I was.

"The place where you live." I looked over to my side and saw a person looking at the sea. The breeze made its way through the terrace giving me a sigh of relief as it gave me a breath of fresh air.

I was still looking at the person beside me, his hair had streaks of dark green and his eyes were dark green that reminded me of the forest that my family went to one time. I looked at him with my brows knitted together.

"It's beautiful." I looked back to the open sea in front of us and smiled slightly. I only nodded as a response and soon enough we were embraced by the silence. I mentally chuckled as I found it rather amusing that I felt comfortable with a stranger beside me, the feeling that I could never feel with my fellow royalties.

There were no signs of awkwardness despite the silence and the atmosphere between us was light and nice. Thoughts then started to flood my mind and I can't help but close my eyes as I felt helpless even with the thoughts running in my head. Why did this have to happen to me.

Why did it have to be me, out of all people. The same question goes through my head every night as I ask the gods the same thing over and over again, yet I get no answer. It haunts me every night and keeps me awake at some point.

"You have to do what you can even if it means working a lot more than others. Life has a bad humor." I looked back to person who was beside me as he climbed and sat in the railing with his feet dangling over the air. I walked over to him and sat on the floor with my head hung low.

"What do you mean." I asked in a quiet voice. It was quite for a moment, so I looked at him. He was looking at me back and I got a better view of his features. I felt things in my stomach and my breath was caught up in my throat.

He looked so beautiful. He was looking at me with a stern yet comforting face that I oddly found familiar. I looked straight into his eyes as it captured me immediately. We looked at each other for who knows how long until he spoke.

"Life laughs at you by giving you problems but it doesn't give you problems you can't conquer." he jumped back to where we previously where and stood properly while dusting himself.

He started to walk away, and I followed him quietly. I looked at him from where I was, he was relatively taller than I was, and he had a fair complexion that made him even more appealing. I didn't notice but the sun has begun to set, and only then did I realize that we were outside on the seashore.

The sun was already setting, and its rays turned the clouds up above into beautiful shades of orange and pink. The breeze started to get colder as I embraced myself while looking at a far distance. I felt someone at my back and turned to look at the same person giving me the coat that he was wearing. He was not looking at me but at the sea.

"N-No you don't have to please." I said rather quickly as I started to panic for unknown reasons.

"It's fine." he said and patted my head. The feeling of the weird things in my stomach came back and I felt my cheeks tingling. I murmured a quite thank you and smiled. I felt his gaze on me which made me nervous.

I don't know why I was feeling like this. I have always admired people openly but something tells me that I admire this person differently but that doesn't even matter. I find him attractive and somewhat kind but to have feelings for someone is the least of my priorities right now. I have too many problems and I have no time for romance.

The waves were crashing continuously on the shore as the tide started to move. I moved closer to where the water was and kneeled down but making sure that the coat that was given to me is not going to get wet. I felt the waters on my palm and right then, a tear fell down my eye that startled me.

I wiped it immediately and looked at my hand. I sighed and stood up before looking back at the person that was with me. He was looking at me still and it made me shy for unknown reason, so I looked at anything aside from him.

He stood up and started to walk back inside. I followed him again silently. Something about him made me feel happy and safe to which I found odd. I was lost in my thought that I didn't know that he stopped, and I bumped on his back.

"O-oh, sorry." I looked around and noticed that we were in front of my room and it was now dark.

I looked at him this time and gave him his coat back. He took if from my grasp and swayed it on his back. I found it cool and it made me adore him a little more. I smiled at him not expecting him to do the same, but he did. And it made me happy and I felt my cheeks tingle.

"Dionysus Apollo." he said and patted my head which made me feel warm.

"See you around Alexander." my mind wasn't focusing as I was too shocked at the moment.

He just took my hand and kissed it like it was nothing. I held it closer and I felt the thing in my stomach again and I felt my face heat up but the smile I wore didn't disappear, but it became a full smile. I opened the door to my room and was about to close it when I saw Hade looking at me from his side of the room and he looked annoyed, he started walking towards me, but I didn't care and shut the door before he got closer. He's not going to ruin my day.